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gte-large-en-v1.5

by Alibaba-NLP Alibaba-NLP/gte-large-en-v1.5

We introduce gte-v1.5 series, upgraded gte embeddings that support the context length of up to 8192, while further enhancing model performance. The models are built upon the transformer++ encoder backbone (BERT + RoPE + GLU).

Parameters434M
Context8,192
Weights6.4 GB
Licenseapache-2.0
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads998.4k

Runs On

What it takes to serve gte-large-en-v1.5 (434M parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

PrecisionWeightsMemory neededCheapest setupPer hourAlso fits
16-bit 0.9 GB 1.0 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 0.4 GB 0.5 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 0.2 GB 0.3 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00

Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Sep 18, 2026.

SAVRN's Notes on gte-large-en-v1.5

Search and retrieval indexing is the job here: an English passage of up to 8,192 tokens goes in, a vector you can compare against millions of others comes out. At 16-bit the 434 million parameters need about 1.0 GB, a rounding error on the cheapest card in our table, one MI300X with 192 GB at $1.85 per hour on-demand. Do not buy a card for it. Put the embedder on the accelerator that already holds the generation model it feeds.

Apache 2.0 covers commercial use, so an index or a fine-tuned copy can ship in a product with the notice files along. Before committing, confirm the 8,192-token window fits your documents, that training on allenai/c4 suits your content policy, and that the pull is 6.4 GB in float32 even though the loaded 16-bit weights are 0.9 GB. Access is open; the SAVRN Index lists no host prices for it.

Model Card

By Alibaba-NLP, published under apache-2.0, revision 104333d6af6f.

We introduce gte-v1.5 series, upgraded gte embeddings that support the context length of up to 8192, while further enhancing model performance. The models are built upon the transformer++ encoder backbone (BERT + RoPE + GLU).

The gte-v1.5 series achieve state-of-the-art scores on the MTEB benchmark within the same model size category and prodvide competitive on the LoCo long-context retrieval tests (refer to Evaluation).

We also present the gte-Qwen1.5-7B-instruct, a SOTA instruction-tuned multi-lingual embedding model that ranked 2nd in MTEB and 1st in C-MTEB.

Model list

Models Language Model Size Max Seq. Length Dimension MTEB-en LoCo
gte-Qwen1.5-7B-instruct Multiple 7720 32768 4096 67.34 87.57
gte-large-en-v1.5 English 434 8192 1024 65.39 86.71
gte-base-en-v1.5 English 137 8192 768 64.11 87.44

How to Get Started with the Model

Use the code below to get started with the model.

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Configuration

Architecture
NewModel
Context length (tokens)
8,192
Layers
24
Hidden size
1,024
Feed-forward size
4,096
Attention heads
16
Vocabulary size
30,528
RoPE base
160,000
Stored precision
float32
Model type
new

Identity and Version

Repository
Alibaba-NLP/gte-large-en-v1.5
Publisher
Alibaba-NLP
Task
Sentence similarity
Modality
Text
Library
transformers
Parameters
434M parameters
Languages
en
Revision
104333d6af6f97649377c2afbde10a7704870c7b
First published
2024-04-20
Last updated
2024-08-09

Files and Weights

18 files, 6.4 GB in total. The weights are 8 files totalling 6.4 GB in onnx, safetensors.

Weights8 files · 6.4 GB
Configuration5 files · 2.6 KB
Tokenizer3 files · 944.6 KB
Documentation1 file · 71.8 KB
Repository1 file · 1.5 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
model.safetensorsWeights1.7 GB fe6e4200b833
onnx/model.onnxWeights1.7 GB 9052c26e0ffa
onnx/model_bnb4.onnxWeights361.5 MB d282ff6c6a6f
onnx/model_fp16.onnxWeights873.3 MB bace618369da
onnx/model_int8.onnxWeights445.8 MB b708aa329e0a
onnx/model_q4.onnxWeights386.7 MB 36adf9753ea5
onnx/model_quantized.onnxWeights445.8 MB b708aa329e0a
onnx/model_uint8.onnxWeights445.8 MB 6fe801030a62
1_Pooling/config.jsonConfiguration297 B
config.jsonConfiguration1.3 KB
modules.jsonConfiguration229 B
sentence_bert_config.jsonConfiguration54 B
special_tokens_map.jsonConfiguration695 B
README.mdDocumentation71.8 KB
.gitattributesRepository1.5 KB
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer711.7 KB
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer1.4 KB
vocab.txtTokenizer231.5 KB

License and Download

License
apache-2.0
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
6.4 GB
Download from Alibaba-NLP

Released by Alibaba-NLP through its official repository on Hugging Face. Read the license.

Built From

Evaluations

Each result is shown as reported, with the conditions its reporter stated. None is a SAVRN measurement. A comparison lines two results up only when their configuration, unit and setup are all stated and identical.

BenchmarkConditionsResultReported byRevisionDate
MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 73.0149 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric apComparison conditions not established 35.0534 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 66.7127 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 93.9719 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric apComparison conditions not established 90.5952 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 93.9585 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 54.196 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 53.8012 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_1Comparison conditions not established 47.297 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_10Comparison conditions not established 64.303 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_100Comparison conditions not established 64.541 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_1000Comparison conditions not established 64.541 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_3Comparison conditions not established 60.728 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_5Comparison conditions not established 63.114 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_1Comparison conditions not established 48.435 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_10Comparison conditions not established 64.657 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_100Comparison conditions not established 64.901 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_1000Comparison conditions not established 64.901 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_3Comparison conditions not established 61.06 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_5Comparison conditions not established 63.514 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_1Comparison conditions not established 47.297 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_10Comparison conditions not established 72.107 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_100Comparison conditions not established 72.963 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_1000Comparison conditions not established 72.963 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_3Comparison conditions not established 65.063 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_5Comparison conditions not established 69.352 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_1Comparison conditions not established 47.297 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_10Comparison conditions not established 9.623 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_100Comparison conditions not established 0.996 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_1000Comparison conditions not established 0.1 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_3Comparison conditions not established 25.865 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_5Comparison conditions not established 17.596 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_1Comparison conditions not established 47.297 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_10Comparison conditions not established 96.23 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_100Comparison conditions not established 99.644 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_1000Comparison conditions not established 99.644 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_3Comparison conditions not established 77.596 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_5Comparison conditions not established 87.98 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArxivClusteringP2P Configuration defaultTask ClusteringMetric v_measureComparison conditions not established 48.4678 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArxivClusteringS2S Configuration defaultTask ClusteringMetric v_measureComparison conditions not established 43.392 Alibaba-NLP
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Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published6.4 GB
16-bit0.9 GB
8-bit0.4 GB
4-bit0.2 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

Questions About gte-large-en-v1.5

How much GPU memory does gte-large-en-v1.5 need?

About 1 GB at 16-bit and 0.3 GB at 4-bit: the weights (434M parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run gte-large-en-v1.5 on?

At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

Can I use gte-large-en-v1.5 commercially?

Yes. gte-large-en-v1.5 is released under Apache License 2.0. The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive open-source license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution. It requires keeping the license and copyright notices and any NOTICE file, stating significant changes, and it includes an express patent grant from contributors.

What is gte-large-en-v1.5's context length?

8,192 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.

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